If the WWI peace settlement wasn’t particularly good, neither was the one from WWII

The last (?) in the series of First World War retrospectives: https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/11/13/what-makes-a-good-peace-settlement.

A triumphal afterglow surrounds the outcome of World War II, the “good war.” But as we lament the dismal end of World War I, it’s worthwhile remembering that the Cold War started within months of World War I, and it did so when the wartime Allies fell out among themselves. Hard to depict that as an unalloyed triumph . . . .